Prime plc News

23 October 2017

Prime and VINCI Construction UK have been successfully appointed to a new four-year parking framework.

5 October 2017

Interserve Prime and Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, has been shortlisted for the Public Private Partnership award in LaingBuisson's UK Healthcare Awards for Excellence 2017.

7 September 2017

Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (DCH) and Interserve Prime (IP) have announced a new joint venture (JV) partnership, to enable the strategic transformation of the Dorchester hospital estate.

30 August 2017

Visitors to the HealthInvestor Investing in Primary Care event on 28 September 2017, will be hearing from Prime’s Phil Holland, who has been asked to take part in the panel discussion to debate the key challenges facing the sector.

28 July 2017

South Somerset District Council has unanimously approved the planning application for an innovative Day Surgery Unit (DSU) at Yeovil Hospital.

10 July 2017

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and HCA Healthcare UK are working with Prime to build a £65million 138 bed specialist hospital.

22 May 2017

Planning permission has been granted for a new care home on Hafod Road, Hereford.

18 May 2017

Birmingham Dental Hospital and School of Dentistry wins the RICS Design through Innovation Award.

15 May 2017

The successful contractors of Prime's new healthcare construction framework have been named.

1 May 2017

Prime appoints Phil Holland as Chief Investment Officer and restructures the Board to make the most of expertise.

30 March 2017

Yeovil Hospital's 650 space multi-storey car park has opened to the public.

3 March 2017

Prime will be hoping for a hat-trick of awards at this year's Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) West Midland Awards.

24 February 2017

A landmark primary care programme in Ireland, which is being delivered by a Prime Balfour Beatty HICL consortium, has been shortlisted in the Best Healthcare Project category of the 2017 Partnership Awards.

14 February 2017

Prime's Leighton Chumbley and Richard Laing talk to Partnerships Bulletin about the company's growth and delivering solutions for today's healthcare challenges.

1 December 2016

Phil Holland will be joining the company in April 2017 as Chief Investment Officer.

24 November 2016

14 November 2016

The Yeovil Estates Partnership wins Estates and Facilities Team of the Year award.

9 November 2016

On Friday 4 November, representatives from the Heritage Lottery Fund and local MP Paul Farrelly visited the Belong Heritage Gallery project, to see how work on the conversion of the Grade II listed coach house is progressing.

23 September 2016

Formed in 2014, Interserve Prime (IP) is a joint venture that brings together the experience of international support services and construction group Interserve, and the expertise of leading healthcare property company Prime, to provide a complete strategic estates offering for NHS Trusts.

20 September 2016

The latest sod turning ceremony at the Claremorris primary care centre site was officiated by Taoiseach, Enda Kenny.

15 September 2016

Minister for Health, Simon Harris TD, has officiated at the latest sod turning ceremony in Boyle, Ireland, as part of the PPP Primary Care Centres project involving Prime and consortium partners Balfour Beatty and HICL Infrastructure Company Limited for client the Health Service Executive (HSE).

5 August 2016

The new Main Entrance and Retail Area (MERA) redevelopment at University Hospital Southampton was officially opened on Friday 29 July, at a special event held at the hospital.

15 July 2016

Minister of State Michael Ring has officially marked the start of work on a new 2,500 square metre primary care centre in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland.

4 July 2016

Work is due to start on a new £13.5million care village in Newcastle-under-Lyme comprising a 72 bed care home and 28 apartments. Specialist healthcare property company, Prime, is developing the project for the award-winning, not-for-profit care provider CLS Care Services Ltd

10 June 2016

Work is now underway to deliver 14 Primary Care Centres across the Republic of Ireland.

25 May 2016

A landmark programme to deliver 14 primary care centres across Ireland is set to get underway following a circa €140 million deal. Construction will start immediately, with the centres being delivered over a twenty-seven month programme.

17 March 2016

The first patients are due to be welcomed to the new Birmingham Dental Hospital and School of Dentistry on Thursday, 31 March.

8 January 2016

Work is due to start on a new multi-storey car park and link road for Yeovil District Hospital (YDH), thanks to a £15.2m deal secured by the hospital’s Strategic Estates Partnership – a joint venture between YDH and Interserve Prime.

11 November 2015

Plans for a new care village in Newcastle-under-Lyme have moved a step closer to fruition thanks to a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of nearly £1.8m.

24 September 2015

Interserve Prime will be speaking at a series of seminars during September and October to talk about working with NHS Trusts in successful strategic estates partnerships.

17 September 2015

A new car park for Yeovil District Hospital has now been given the go ahead after local councillors unanimously approved the planning application for a 654 space multi-storey car park.

14 September 2015

Prime will be at NHS Property 2015 to share its innovative work on commercial estates partnership solutions to delegates from the healthcare sector.

1 July 2015

Prime Chief Executive, Richard Laing joined the debate surrounding opportunities for investment in healthcare, as a speaker at Estates Gazette’s Specialist Markets Investment Forum.

10 June 2015

May marked the start of an exciting new phase for the Main Entrance and Retail Area (MERA) redevelopment at University Hospital Southampton (UHS).

18 May 2015

A consortium comprised of Prime, Balfour Beatty and InfraRed Capital Partners Limited (as the investment adviser to HICL Infrastructure Company Limited (HICL), the listed infrastructure fund) has been selected as Preferred Tenderer to deliver 14 primary

28 April 2015

The new Birmingham Dental Hospital and School of Dentistry has been recognised at the highest level, with the project shortlisted in the ‘Best Healthcare Project’ category of the 2015 Partnerships Awards.

1 April 2015

Work is due to start on the multimillion pound redevelopment of the main entrance and retail area of the University Hospital Southampton.

6 March 2015

Prime will be hoping to do the double at this year’s prestigious Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) West Midlands Awards, following the announcement that its Biddulph Primary Care Centre project has been shortlisted in two categories.

15 December 2014

Local artists will today (4 December) see their work go on display at Biddulph Primary Care Centre after winning a competition to find the town’s most talented artists.

10 December 2014

The Lord Mayor of Birmingham Councillor Shafique Shah was guest of honour at the official opening of Willow House - a new, purpose-built ‘dementia-friendly’ inpatient unit at West Heath Hospital that recently received its first patients.

17 November 2014

Yeovil Hospital and Interserve Prime have established an exciting new partnership which will enable the hospital to improve care for local people by developing its estate and buildings.

17 October 2014

Clinical staff and students from the Birmingham Dental Hospital and School of Dentistry have visited the construction site of the new facility to have a ‘sneak preview’ of the build with a year to go until students begin their studies...

21 July 2014

A new dementia-friendly care unit has been opened at West Heath Hospital in Birmingham.

19 June 2014

Prime’s passion for St Catherine’s Health Centre in Wirral and the potential it offers the area has seen it win the International Partnerships Award for Best Designed Project 2014.

5 June 2014

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) has chosen Interserve and Prime as new long term development partners.

4 June 2014

Councillor Tahir Ali met with the Dental Hospital construction team to witness the signing of an Employment Charter by main contractor Galliford Try.

27 May 2014

Prime has won a Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) West Midlands Award, scooping the top prize in the Community Benefit category for its work on the Cobridge Community Health Centre in Stoke-on-Trent.

17 April 2014

Pupils at Castle Primary School, in Mow Cop, will be taking lessons in the great outdoors after Easter thanks to a grant from the Prime Foundation, which has helped pay for a new outside classroom for the school.

4 April 2014

Prime plc has been named as a finalist in the ‘Developer of the Year’ category for the 2014 HealthInvestor Awards.

27 March 2014

Prime will be hoping to win a hat-trick of awards following the announcement that its Cobridge Community Health Centre project has been shortlisted in three categories at the prestigious Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) West Midlands Awards.

10 March 2014

St Johns House Medical Centre in Worcester is now welcoming patients to its brand new facility on the up-and-coming University Park development – the science, health and enterprise park off Bromyard Road. The £4.475 million building, developed by Prime

12 December 2013

A time capsule celebrating the rich and unique heritage of Biddulph has been buried today (5 December) to commemorate the completion of the town’s new £10m primary care centre, which opened to patients earlier this year.

21 October 2013

Senior representatives from the project’s key partners gathered on Monday 14 October to mark the start of construction at the new Birmingham Dental Hospital & School of Dentistry.

23 September 2013

HRH The Earl of Wessex has officially opened the new £32m St Catherine’s Health Centre in Birkenhead.

19 August 2013

Contracts have been signed for the new Birmingham Dental Hospital and School of Dentistry at Pebble Mill and work will start on site next month.

14 August 2013

The final phase of St Catherine’s Health Centre in Birkenhead has completed this week, ensuring local people will benefit from some of the best healthcare facilities in the UK for decades to come.

8 August 2013

Construction on St Johns House Medical Centre is continuing apace.

26 July 2013

Plans have been revealed for an 18-bed care unit, designed for people with dementia.

9 July 2013

The new £10m Biddulph Primary Care Centre in Wharf Road has opened its doors to the public.

1 May 2013

A landmark community hub facilitated by Prime plc has been recognised as an inspirational development after being shortlisted in a prestigious national awards scheme.

11 March 2013

People in a County Durham village have been invited to take a tour around their new library and health centre in Pelton, near Chester-le-Street.

18 February 2013

Three budding David Baileys have won an Attwood Green Health Centre photography competition for their stunning water-themed images of Birmingham.

31 January 2013

An opening celebration has been held to mark the completion of a new Sparkbrook Church which replaces one seriously damaged in a Birmingham tornado in 2005.

7 January 2013

Construction is now underway at Worcester's new St Johns House Medical Centre.

20 December 2012

Detailed planning permission has been granted by Birmingham City Council to build a new Dental Hospital and the University of Birmingham’s School of Dentistry on the former BBC Pebble Mill site.

31 October 2012

HICL Infrastructure Company Limited (HICL), the UK’s largest listed social infrastructure fund, has joined Prime plc as joint venture partner in Prime LIFT Investments Ltd (PLIL).

12 September 2012

The first tenants at an exemplar £32 million new health centre in Birkenhead are in the process of moving in following the completion of the first stage of construction.

7 August 2012

Two GP surgeries serving the people of Wednesbury could soon have new premises, providing high quality facilities and improved access to essential health and social care services.

20 June 2012

The new £14 million Cobridge Community Health Centre and Integrated Sexual Health Unit, which includes the Staffordshire Sexual Assault Referral Centre, have been officially opened

15 June 2012

Plans to build a new dental hospital and school of dentistry at Pebble Mill, Birmingham have taken a further significant step forward after the Department of Health approved the first stage of a two-stage business case.

23 May 2012

The design and development team involved in progressing the proposed health centre is asking the local community to input into the design process and the services for the new facility.

23 March 2012

A new £12 million Community and Health Centre has opened in the heart of Sparkbrook, offering integrated health and council services together on one site, and delivering a much greater breadth of health support and community facilities for the local community

13 March 2012

Residents in and around Hartshill will soon see plans for a new £2.6 million medical centre and pharmacy in Stoke-on-Trent realised as building work commences on site

28 November 2011

A new £11 million state-of-the-art health centre has opened in Stoke-on-Trent, bringing together six local GP practices and providing an enhanced range of services to the local community.

24 October 2011

After outgrowing their current building, doctors at St John’s House Surgery hope they may have found a new home - at the University of Worcester’s University Park site at Grove Farm on Bromyard Road, Worcester.

19 October 2011

A new £14 million health centre has opened in Stoke-on-Trent to provide an enhanced range of services to a patient population in excess of 100,000.

12 September 2011

The major phase of construction on a new £10 million health centre in Biddulph gets underway this week.

27 May 2011

Overwhelming community support, a pioneering funding model and thoughtful design has seen St Catherine’s Health Centre in Wirral receive the Partnerships Bulletin award for Best Healthcare Project 2011.

10 January 2011

Construction of the new £13 million Attwood Green Health Centre on Bath Row, Birmingham, has begun. Once finished up to 16,000 people will benefit from new health services.

6 December 2010

A Christmas tree, paid for by Prime plc and Wates Construction, is lighting up the community of Meir from the site of the long-awaited health centre. The new £11 million health centre is currently being built on Weston Road.

19 November 2010

An official turf cutting ceremony has officially marked the start of work on site for the new £11 million Meir Primary Care Centre.

8 November 2010

Plans to build a new £12 million complex that integrates health and council services in the heart of Sparkbrook have been given the final go-ahead.

1 October 2010

Partners Heart of Birmingham teaching Primary Care Trust, NHS South Birmingham, BaS LIFT and Prime plc have confirmed that contracts have been signed to deliver the new £13 million Attwood Green Health Centre.

30 September 2010

Mill Rise wins “housing for an ageing population” category of the Homes and Communities Awards 2010, its fifth award.

24 September 2010

Scotland’s newest community hospital and primary care centre, has been officially opened by the Chief Executive of NHSScotland.

15 September 2010

Residents of Meir are now only 13 months away from benefiting from a new £11 million state-of-the-art health centre.

23 August 2010

Residents of Sparkhill, Birmingham are now only 18 months away from benefiting from a new £10 million state-of-the-art health centre.

30 July 2010

Mill Rise Village, developed and delivered by Prime plc through its Prima 200 partnership in North Staffordshire received the major national ‘Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) Exemplar's award from a panel of independent judges at the prestigious

25 June 2010

Turf cutting celebration for Cobridge Community Health Centre

31 May 2010

The people of Hodge Hill, Birmingham have now moved a step closer to benefiting from a new state-of-the-art health centre.

28 May 2010

A long awaited state-of-the-art new £14 million health centre in Cobridge, Stoke-on-Trent has reached financial close.

14 May 2010

Prima 200 has been chosen as Best LIFT (Local Improvement Finance Trust) Company by a national panel of public sector judges at the prestigious PPF Awards 2010.

30 March 2010

Minister of State for Health Mike O’Brien has officially opened the award-winning Mill Rise Village – an innovative extra care village in North Staffordshire.

2 March 2010

Andy Burnham MP, Secretary of State for Health joined Joan Walley MP for Stoke-on-Trent North to officially open the new £3 million Medical Centre in Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent.

21 January 2010

NHS Birmingham East and North and partners BaS LIFT Co and Prime plc have successfully reached financial close on the major new £15 million Washwood Heath Health and Wellbeing Centre.

11 January 2010

Prime plc has developed a new finance model which will enable PCTs to combine NHS capital and private finance to fund developments, despite funding gaps or budget shortfalls.